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Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags
From: |
Donald Sharp |
Subject: |
Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags |
Date: |
Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:19:54 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.2.4i |
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 01:08:03PM -0700, Stephen Cameron wrote:
>
> --- Donald Sharp <sharpd@cisco.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 12:01:21PM -0700, Stephen Cameron wrote:
>
> > >
> > > It prevents this mistake:
> > > cvs tag -d sometag
> > > "Oh crap, I meant to type someothertag! sometag is my branch tag!!!
> > ^C^C^C^C"
> >
> > Your proposal doesn't stop this( adding another command line switch
> > doesn't stop people from typing the wrong branch/tag name. ).
> > There is nothing that can ever stop the accident from happening.
> >
> My patch transforms the _consequence_ of the mistake from potentially
> catastrophic unrecoverable branch tag loss into warning messages.
That's fair.
>
> However, it's clear that you believe people will, for some strange reason,
> become accustomed to typing "cvs tag -d -b sometag" even when they don't need
> "-b" 99.9999% of the time, thus reducing the effectiveness of the "-b" to
> nothing.
Users do strange things, all the time. part of my arguement was that they
are going to learn the -b behaviour and use it regardless. And then
your patch doesn't stop them anymore.
>
> Since you're the only one that's giving a strong opinion, and your opinoin
> seems to be that you don't like it, well, ok. I know when I'm beat.
There's no need/reason for this attitude. I'm trying help come up with what's
best for cvs. If what I am doing isn't helping, or my arguement
doesn't make sense please inform me so I can fix it.
donald
>
> later,
>
> -- steve
>
>
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- Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/01
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Donald Sharp, 2001/06/01
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Donald Sharp, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Donald Sharp, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Donald Sharp, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Larry Jones, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags,
Donald Sharp <=
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Larry Jones, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Stephen Cameron, 2001/06/04
- Re: Preventing mistakenly deleting branch tags, Derek R. Price, 2001/06/04